Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Greg Smith wrote:
Where Josh got hung up, where I got hung up, where Lance Campbell stopped
at with his Dummies tool, and what some unknown number of other people
have been twarted by, is that taking that knowledge and turning it into a
tool useful to users is surprisingly difficult. The reason for that is
the current postgresql.conf file and how it maps internally to GUC
information isn't particularly well suited to automated generation,
analysis, or updates.
What I think this says is that we should be pushing Magnus more to
continue work on the configuration API thing he was designing.
There's some magic in pgAdmin to parse and write the file. You could
take a look a that.
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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